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Press Pass | Maason Smith on Making the Most of His Reps, BTJ Success · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yesterday obviously the best game of your career. How frustrating
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  Speaker 1: has this season been for you, you know, being active,
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  Speaker 1: being inactive and finally getting to play as much as
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  Speaker 1: you did yesterday and produce the way you did.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I choose not to really worry about that
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  Speaker 2: type of stuff, you know, things that are out of
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  Speaker 2: my control, you know, uncontrollables. I can't really worry about them,
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  Speaker 2: just because you know they'll you know, take you off
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  Speaker 2: or you know, push you to think any way or
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  Speaker 2: make you feel a certain way about yourself. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I try to stay away from it to just you know,
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  Speaker 2: putting my mind on the things as bad as things
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  Speaker 2: that haven't happen for me this season, you know, But
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  Speaker 2: every time I go out there, I just put my
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  Speaker 2: you know, my best foot forward and continue to girl,
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  Speaker 2: continue to get better. So for me, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, just getting the reps. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like repetition makes perfection, so you know, just doing
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  Speaker 2: it a lot more times, you know, just help me
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  Speaker 2: out and you know, ultimately help me out of my
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  Speaker 2: play yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So where do you think you've grown the most from
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  Speaker 1: the time you got here to now?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I really don't think it's much on the field,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I always felt that way about myself that
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  Speaker 2: I can make plays on this level, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it's more off the.
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  Speaker 3: Field, you know, just really having a process.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like at the beginning of the year, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: before my ankle injury, you know, I felt like I
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  Speaker 2: was kind of winging it to a point, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily getting in the facility as early as maybe
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  Speaker 2: I needed to, or just going off of you know,
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  Speaker 2: some somebody else's routine. You know that, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: no offense, ain't you know, ain't where I want to be.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I had to take it into myself
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  Speaker 2: and find my own process, you know, and asks guys
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  Speaker 2: you know that I've been doing at a high level
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  Speaker 2: for for a minute now you know what their process was,
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  Speaker 2: and just configured my own, whether it's workouts, eating right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So one did that finally all come together? You putting
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  Speaker 1: that process together for you to find out what works
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, really when we got back from London
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  Speaker 2: is where I really started to, uh, you know, try
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  Speaker 2: to find that, you know, And when we got back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, inevitably, it just so happened that I heard
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  Speaker 2: my ankle. But you know, I feel like my progression
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  Speaker 2: would have been going straight from there, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but just really probably after we left London, you know,
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  Speaker 2: after I set out the h the Patriots game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just for some wrongdoings that I did. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: after that, you know, it kind of you know, made
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  Speaker 2: me take a step back and look at it from
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  Speaker 2: the outside looking in, so you know, I had to
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  Speaker 2: change some things.
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  Speaker 1: Was there a particular player or two who really helped
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  Speaker 1: you kind of get focused in on on your process?
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  Speaker 2: You know, really just like you know, Eric and Josh
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  Speaker 2: really him, they are really just kind of took me
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  Speaker 2: under their wing and really just you know, I see
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  Speaker 2: here all the time early, I see Josh here all
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  Speaker 2: the time early, you know, and they've been doing it
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  Speaker 2: for a high level for a long time. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: just seeing that, you know, obviously it makes sense for me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to try to make some process of mind.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, that's all it was just being able
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  Speaker 2: to pick and choose what things that they do that
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  Speaker 2: I like, you know, kind of just making.
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  Speaker 3: My own plan.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, but I appreciate it, sir, Justin, followed by Jamal.
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  Speaker 4: Hey Mason, I wanted to ask you about the sack selly.
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  Speaker 4: When did you know you were going to trip out
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  Speaker 4: after you did it? And how much have you practiced
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  Speaker 4: doing that dance?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I knew it's been for a la minute
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  Speaker 2: now that the next time I had got one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna trip out just because you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: something close to my heart, something from home, you know,
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  Speaker 2: try to put a little swag on it, from a
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  Speaker 2: little some of Louisiana swag on it. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of been knowing it for a la minute,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm glad it came through the time.
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  Speaker 4: Are we going to see more of the trip out
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  Speaker 4: sellies if you get more sacks or Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: For sure, that's that's one of them. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's one thing that I intend on doing that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I might come up with something mess who knows appreciate it?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Jill Amazon, have you have you ever lost this
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  Speaker 5: many games before in your life?
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  Speaker 3: No, how frustrated is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's definitely frustrating. It's definitely it's really frustrating,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's even more frustrating to know that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys work they tell of every day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just to see that and and not see
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  Speaker 2: you know, everything coming to fruition.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard, definitely, But.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like the guys, I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: even though you know we're losing, and the bad thing
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  Speaker 2: about it is we're losing by close, you know, close margins,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But I think I feel like everybody you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's try to stay positive through a tough time like this.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it does suck. I've never liked, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I've never lost as much.
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  Speaker 5: Is it tough to I mean, do some guys start
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  Speaker 5: looking ahead and saying that, you know, two games left,
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  Speaker 5: let's get the season over with and start looking the
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  Speaker 5: next year. Is it tough not to do that at the.
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  Speaker 2: Time, I feel like I feel like I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of more individual, you know, for the most
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  Speaker 2: part though, I know the guys that you know I
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  Speaker 2: hang around with or you know that I be around with,
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  Speaker 2: none of them really put their mind into that.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like at this point of the season, the
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  Speaker 2: different you know the NFL, what I've learned, you know,
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  Speaker 2: your your feel is your resume. So whereas if you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be here. If you're gonna be somewhere else, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta put good, good film on tape.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, for.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys, yeah, I guess they might, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: might get into that mindset. But for the majority, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, I know that you know, they can team
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  Speaker 2: to work, continue to grow, and you know, try to
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  Speaker 2: put some good film on tape.
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  Speaker 3: Them make plays.
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  Speaker 5: And one last thing, you and BT, what's it like
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  Speaker 5: seeing him ball out this year over a thousand yards already?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's it's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, me and BT came to school, you know,
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  Speaker 2: came to shoot the same exect year, the same exec
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  Speaker 2: recrume class. So it's amazing to see him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just grow, not even on the field. You know, BT
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  Speaker 2: been a battle man even before you know, I know
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  Speaker 2: last year was his you know, kind of his year
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  Speaker 2: to pop out and everybody starting knowing about him. But
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  Speaker 2: BT been the ball ever since we you know, we
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  Speaker 2: got to college. Even in high school. You know, me
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  Speaker 2: and BT played in the same district high school football.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean I've been watching BT for a minute
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  Speaker 2: and likewise, but it's amazing to see him, you know, bouting.
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  Speaker 3: And continue to grow man.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the cool thing about it is like
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  Speaker 2: I mean, y'all don't know BT like that, but like
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  Speaker 2: BT always been a real quiet person forever, you know,
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  Speaker 2: ever since I ever met him, you know, and I've
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  Speaker 2: been on I'm not going on, you know, for five years,
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  Speaker 2: and just to see how much he's grown off the
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  Speaker 2: field is you know, to me, it's what is really
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  Speaker 2: cool just to see him open up, you know and
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  Speaker 2: really you know, shows personality, like he shows personality with
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  Speaker 2: me and you know a couple of other guys just
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  Speaker 2: because we've been together. But like just you know, put
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  Speaker 2: more of his personality out there, you know, just be him,
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  Speaker 2: be himself, you know, that's what That's what I like
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 5: So when he starts talking trash after a big cat,
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  Speaker 5: that doesn't catch you by surprise.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's him. That's really him. But you know, to
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  Speaker 2: the outside world, b T you know, quiet and everything
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  Speaker 2: like that, But that's really him.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: He he always been like that. You know, it's in him.
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  Speaker 2: It's boring in him, you know,